In 2000 I became International Communities Producer at Yahoo!. This was a great opportunity for me because not only did I love working with online communities, but I also had a deep passion for understanding different cultures. In this position I worked to deploy and maintain Yahoo!s community services across Yahoo!'s 23 markets during a time of extremely rapid market growth both domesticaly and internationally.

At the time our services included:

• Yahoo! Clubs
• Yahoo! Photos and Briefcase
• Yahoo! Member Directory and Profiles

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